So there's no way to be anonymous with your Bitcoin? I don't like that I had to take a picture of my id to use Coinbase. I guess asking how to be private was wrong when I should have asked how can I be anonymous?
At thr end of the day you can't be anonymous with bitcoin. You can send and receive from your own wallet without having to give personal information, and have full control over your crypto, but anywhere it touches other monetary systems (like coinbase), you can be tracked. If that makes sense.
I'd say Exodus or Coinomi for a basic software wallet that can hold both bitcoin and doge. Just make sure to backup the keys/phrase to generate the wallet again. Write it down somewhere so even if your computer/phone dies, you'll be able to get access again to the crypto.
Lightning nodes will obfuscate your transactions. Combined with a wallet that ALWAYS uses new addresses... And it would take. National resources to sort it out.
Your Gov't ID is now tied to that BTC and will be traceable whatever wallet you transfer it to. To make it anonymous you would ha e to move it through a mixer similar to tornado cash but on the bitcoin chain, or even bridge it to another chain like SCRT (secret) and then back again.
Good point. Eh, I'll consider it a $100 lesson. I'll just get a wallet then go to a Bitcoin machine and pay cash. That would be anonymous?
LOL, nope, I think they at least require a phone and maybe an ID too? I guess that could be faked easier.
If you actually want anonymous transactions, you'll need to use a privacy coin like monero.
Most of those in the u.s. require ID, but if you are lucky and find one that doesn't need ID then yes that would work too.
HODLHODL (it's an exchange)
Yes there is.... People are stupid.
BISQ (it's an exchange)
WAVES exchange.
I'll check these out, thank you.
Feel free to ping me here and I'll help out if you get stuck.
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